74novaman wrote:drjoker wrote:
If you do have to shoot in a crowded room where there's no clear shot without danger of penetrating the bg and hitting someone else behind the bg, then practice shooting for a perp's foot. A perp who loses his balance due to a missing foot has a natural fall instinct response; the hand releases the gun and extends for balance and to break the fall. This means the perp will lose control of his weapon if you shoot him in the foot. The downward trajectory of a foot shot ensures that the shot will not over-penetrate the bg and hit someone behind him.
This seems like Hollywood inspired bad advice.
About the best way I could think of to produce a richochet and potentially damage bystanders would be to shoot at a bad guys feet like I was trying to make him dance in an old western movie. Floors are hard. Handgun caliber bullets tend to bounce off hard objects like that.
There are plenty of documented cases where BGs take a round or more center mass and keep moving. What makes you think there is any kind of guarantee that if a BG gets shot in the foot he's going to drop the gun, grab his foot and fall over?
Sorry, but I think that is a TERRIBLE idea.
Center Mass Tap Tap